1. In the space below, describe the stasis at the beginning of the play NOT THE FILM of Real Women Have Curves. In other words, “Where are we?” “When is it (time, day, and year)?” “Who are the people involved?” “What is the dramatic situation in which the characters find themselves as the play unfolds?”
Real Women Have Curves takes place in a sewing factory in East Los Angeles, the first week September 1987.The main characters are Ana, the story really focuses on her in a sense. 2. What is the intrusion that causes the stasis to be broken in the play and the dramatic action to develop, often at an increasingly rapid pace, to the end of the play?
When the women undressed. In that moment they bonded like never before. They became transparent with one another.
3. Why do the events of the play take place at this particular time and place? In other words, what is the unique factor which is out of the ordinary that causes a turn of events to take place?
This is the day that the women become transparent with one another. Ana is at a crossroad in her life and she's ultimately make her decision after this point in time.
4. State the dramatic questions that must be answered by the end of the play? (Ordinarily, the dramatic question shares a close connection with the intrusion.)
Will Ana become a writer and what will happen with the factory and Estella.
5. Use Ana, the central character, to answer the questions. Ball says, a character is revealed by what he/she does, that is, the dramatic actions that are taken by that character. Examine what Ana wants (NOTE: In Real Women Ana's wants seem to be in flux. They change as the play progresses). The wants of a character often encounter obstacles that get in the way of achieving those wants. Ball says there are 4 kinds of obstacles that frustrate the wants of a character. They are: a. Me against myself, b. Me against another individual, c. Me against society (that is law, social norms, etc.) and, d. Me against fate, the universe, natural forces, God or the gods. In answering these questions be sure to point to the particular obstacles that demonstrate these obstacles.
Ana is constantly fighting against social norms and her family. She wants to be more open with her womanhood and she wants to be a writer and not stuck in a factory the rest of her life. The woman from her ethic background are taught to be more submissive and less promiscuous and Ana doesn't want to be like that.
6. The most important information in most plays takes place during theatrical moments. Identify the most theatrical moments in Real Women Have Curves.
Some of the most dramatic moments include: when the ladies compared their bodies, when Estella admitted that she was Illegal and how much debt she's in.
7. Provide at least three examples of images in Real Women. How does the title of the play help us understand the images in the play? (Remember Ball says that, “An image is the use of something we know that tells us something we don’t know.” He goes on to say that images invoke and expand, rather than define and limit.”)
1.the women shedding their clothes. It's like them shedding the stereotypes of what people expecting them to be.
2.The shop itself. Most women are domesticated and expected to do things like fix clothes.
3.dress size. also a representation of the standard that society sets on women. Most o the dresses aren't a large size, they are made to fit a woman of a smaller stature.
8. Ordinarily, there are many themes in most plays. List the themes in Real Women.
The themes in the Real Women are as follow:
Body positivism (when the women striped down to the undergarments and embraced how they look)
Immigration (Estella was undocumented, and often times feared La Migra)
Family (the dynamics between a mother and daughter were changed as Estella was Carmen's boss. the women also bonded in the shop and became a family)
Culture (often times this was brought up. How a young girl in their culture should save herself for marriage, etc.)
9. Most American plays have something to do with family and/or family relationships. What does family have to do with the dramatic action in Real Women? Is family redefined in this play? If so, how and why?
The women in the shop are a family. I don't think that family is redefined. Often times family won't always push you to move way from them. Often times a family won't push you to go out of social norms. But in the end they will help you through whatever problem that you are facing.
Real Women Have Curves takes place in a sewing factory in East Los Angeles, the first week September 1987.The main characters are Ana, the story really focuses on her in a sense.
2. What is the intrusion that causes the stasis to be broken in the play and the dramatic action to develop, often at an increasingly rapid pace, to the end of the play?
When the women undressed. In that moment they bonded like never before. They became transparent with one another.
3. Why do the events of the play take place at this particular time and place? In other words, what is the unique factor which is out of the ordinary that causes a turn of events to take place?
This is the day that the women become transparent with one another. Ana is at a crossroad in her life and she's ultimately make her decision after this point in time.
4. State the dramatic questions that must be answered by the end of the play? (Ordinarily, the dramatic question shares a close connection with the intrusion.)
Will Ana become a writer and what will happen with the factory and Estella.
5. Use Ana, the central character, to answer the questions. Ball says, a character is revealed by what he/she does, that is, the dramatic actions that are taken by that character. Examine what Ana wants (NOTE: In Real Women Ana's wants seem to be in flux. They change as the play progresses). The wants of a character often encounter obstacles that get in the way of achieving those wants. Ball says there are 4 kinds of obstacles that frustrate the wants of a character. They are: a. Me against myself, b. Me against another individual, c. Me against society (that is law, social norms, etc.) and, d. Me against fate, the universe, natural forces, God or the gods. In answering these questions be sure to point to the particular obstacles that demonstrate these obstacles.
Ana is constantly fighting against social norms and her family. She wants to be more open with her womanhood and she wants to be a writer and not stuck in a factory the rest of her life. The woman from her ethic background are taught to be more submissive and less promiscuous and Ana doesn't want to be like that.
6. The most important information in most plays takes place during theatrical moments. Identify the most theatrical moments in Real Women Have Curves.
Some of the most dramatic moments include: when the ladies compared their bodies, when Estella admitted that she was Illegal and how much debt she's in.
7. Provide at least three examples of images in Real Women. How does the title of the play help us understand the images in the play? (Remember Ball says that, “An image is the use of something we know that tells us something we don’t know.” He goes on to say that images invoke and expand, rather than define and limit.”)
1.the women shedding their clothes. It's like them shedding the stereotypes of what people expecting them to be.
2.The shop itself. Most women are domesticated and expected to do things like fix clothes.
3.dress size. also a representation of the standard that society sets on women. Most o the dresses aren't a large size, they are made to fit a woman of a smaller stature.
8. Ordinarily, there are many themes in most plays. List the themes in Real Women.
The themes in the Real Women are as follow:
Body positivism (when the women striped down to the undergarments and embraced how they look)
Immigration (Estella was undocumented, and often times feared La Migra)
Family (the dynamics between a mother and daughter were changed as Estella was Carmen's boss. the women also bonded in the shop and became a family)
Culture (often times this was brought up. How a young girl in their culture should save herself for marriage, etc.)
9. Most American plays have something to do with family and/or family relationships. What does family have to do with the dramatic action in Real Women? Is family redefined in this play? If so, how and why?
The women in the shop are a family. I don't think that family is redefined. Often times family won't always push you to move way from them. Often times a family won't push you to go out of social norms. But in the end they will help you through whatever problem that you are facing.